Affordable home-ownership scheme offers a pathway out of social housing Case studies Shared equity models have a dual benefit of making home ownership affordable for people on modest incomes and freeing up scarce social housing for other households in need.
Grand designs: will NSW’s big social housing flip work? September 14, 2017 By Julian Bajkowski Community & Social There are signs social housing builds are finally changing for the better. But can good architecture change entrenched disadvantage and a punitive mentality towards welfare recipients?
Sweeping human services overhaul depends on government stewardship June 2, 2017 By Stephen Easton News The Productivity Commission has handed down its draft report recommending major reforms to six separate kinds of human services, starting from the point that service users mostly know what’s good for themselves. It all hinges on how well governments play their stewardship role.
The cross-border taskforce reviving housing policy January 18, 2016 By Stephen Easton Community & Social Bureaucrats across four jurisdictions must work fast to solve a policy problem put in the too-hard basket by successive governments: affordable housing. They were under pressure from the start.
Returning independence to social housing in NSW July 21, 2014 By Harley Dennett News Social housing tenants in NSW can cut out the middle man in a new restructure of maintenance contracts by FACS. But some 44 public servants will lose their jobs.